:D Things have been great, the Lord brought us another good week. It has been busy and we have an even greater upcoming week. I am doing great, loving it, my companion is still super solid! I really hope we can stay together for awhile, I wouldn't mind finishing with him. Had a great birthday! We had a member feed us dinner, they grilled out oh man it was so good!!! I ate too much though. Another member fed us brunch which was super super good too! loved it! Yumm!!! Yumm!!!! Yumm!!!!

Elder Franchino bought me Loyless donuts that morning, a really good and really unhealthy apple fritter.

So here are the main points:

BCD's:

-A girl that was brought to church last Sunday by some members, we had our first lesson with on Wednesday, this girl is super solid! She feels the Spirit so strong, she has never felt it at church before. She loves it and wants to be baptized super bad. September 15 is the day. Right before a missionary leaves for the MTC. They are friends. She said she feels welcomed and loved and all the good spiritual feelings at church.

-Our other family didnt make it to church but we saw them during the week and had a good lesson with them. The daughter who once wasn't very open, is now alot more open. It went great!!!

FLOOD!!!!!!:

-We had a few days of crazy weather this week, on Wednesday actually we came home for lunch and we were going with a member right after so he joined us for lunch, it started raining about 15 min. into lunch and about 15 min after it started raining we looked out side to see that our little foot high creek about 60 feet from our buliding has raised up about 2 feet. We had never seen it that big before. It kept coming and coming, it eventually got up the hill towards the apartments underneath us, and we ran out to take pictures. We saw management and they were getting ready to out down some sandbags to try and keep the water out of the doors so we offered to help. Took only a few minutes but we got it done. The water by the walk ways in between the apartments was about knee deep. All nasty swamp water full of bugs and stuff. We were filthy with the staining Alabama red sand on our shorts and t shirts. Fun experience though, the management really earned some trust with us which was solid!

FORTUNE COOKIE:

-A member in the bishopbric has a buddy who he brought to UT with him to hike MT Tipanogas( I don't know how to spell it). Well while there they checked out temple square and all so his non member buddy loved it. Then last Saturday night he text his friend and asked him to come to church and his friend responded with a picture and a text saying I just opened a fortune cookie that said something along the lines of " It will be wise to explore new possiblities with close friends." haha it was so cool! The Lord works in mysterious ways.

B-DAY PARTIES:

-There were 4 awesome members that had us over for some form of birthday celebration. One member shared his bday with me and made a cake that had FTM and NOM on it, cause he is going to the Nebraska Omaha Mission and i am in the Florida Tallahassee mission. It was tons of fun. Another sister made us cakes actually and had basically a mini ward function at her house. IT was super sweet! She knew I loved Tide detergent and she bought me a little bottle of it. Way too nice.

PASTOR:

-After church yesterday we were biking away and I saw a man who was slowly mee-andering(don't know how to spell that either) around and he checked his mail box. I felt impressed to go talk to him so we rode up and said hey, turns out he is very interested in our church, and wants to meet with us. We are going to be going to see him Thursday, whipp-ee!!!! It was such a neat tender mercy of the Lord.

20 PEOPLE AT CHURCH:

- We set a goal this week to have 20 people, less actives and non members to church. We are super pumped! It is going to happen! We have alot of people to back up those numbers and lots of fantastic members to bring their friends. This will be higher then I have ever gotten! Stretch our limits!!!

Health Binge:

-I ate way too much on by birthday and a few times recently so i am on a health binge and I feel super good. I am trying to live the word of wisdom more fully. Lots of yummy fruit, spinach, carrots, oatmeal. Yummies! I am loving it!!!! Elder Franchino is really happy to because he gets all my candy. He is a super chunker!! haha

Its been a great week, the Lord has given us alot! I am so grateful for Him. The Atonement is real, it is what makes this work so important and possible. God lives and Jesus is the Christ. If we have the love of God we will be a good people. Miracles are being wrought. God bless yall. Thank you so much for all your support!

Have a great week!

-Elder West